This is Berk, it's twelve days north of hopeless and a few degrees south of freezing to death. It's located solidly on a meridian of misery. My village, in a word? Sturdy. And it's been here for seven generations, but every building here is new. We have fishing, hunting and a charming view of the sunsets, the only problem is the pests. You see most places have mice or mosquitos, we have . . . dragons. Most people would leave, not us.
We've been living as vikings for as long as anyone can remember, but ten years ago, a now twenty-five year old Hiccup brought us and the dragons together. Now, we're dragon riders!
Oh, sorry, forgot to introduce myself, I'm Hazel Jewel. I know, not a viking-esque name, but it was what I was born with. I'm probably one of the few occupants on Berk who doesn't have a dragon . . . excluding babies. I am Atrid's youngest cousin, as I am fifteen and the others are older than her, so twenty-six years plus.
Well, that's enough about me and now to the story!
Third Person (For the story only)
"Hazel," the young viking's brother said shaking her, "Hazel, Hazel!" He sighed and turned around to his Terrible Terror, Smidgen, and motioned to his sister.
The small dragon understood and jumped on top of her growling. After a minute of that it's throat turned red and that alone was enough to wake her up.
Hazel jumped up knocking Smidgen off her bed and kicking her brother in the process. Acting like nothing happened she got up and moved her brother out of the room then got dressed and headed out to the large forest near Berk.
"Hazel! Wait up!" a voice shouted from behind her. Without warning Hazel turned with her bo drawn pointing towards the owner of the voice. "Hazel! Sheesh, I know you aren't blind! You know it's me."
"Leonidas!" she said putting her bow back over her shoulders. She ran towards the boy and his Changewing appearing beside him. "I see Camoscale is warming up to you."
The boy shrugged and hopped onto the dragon's saddle. "I guess he is," he said, "We should be off, I have one of Hiccup's map copies, so we won't get lost and a book of dragons" You see, the two were planning on finding Hazel a dragon, as all the ones on Berk didn't appeal to her or vice versa.
"Thanks" she said taking his hand and hoping up onto the dragon. "Mush!" she said messing up Leo's hair. The boy laughed and the Changewing took off.
Camoscale landed on an island off of the shore of Berk. It seemed like it was an appropriate place for dragons, the only problem was the mist. The first thing Leonidas did after getting off the dragon was walk straight into a tree branch and earn himself a cut.
"Enough messing around Leo!" Hazel was walking into the woods. "Come on o' Dragon Rider" Leonidas got up and began walking, Camoscale walked behind him and slowly shifted colors to blend in.
"You know, we probably could've gotten Stormy and her Skrill," Leo mumbled, "Then this might be a little easier." He kicked a rock into a tree and then shut up.
"No need to complain, sheesh," Hazel replied, "Why are you humming?"
Leonidas put his arm out to stop her. "I'm not, I thought you were." He slowly drew his sword and it shreaked as it rubbed against the metal casing. "Camoscale!" he shouted and the dragon appeared at his side only a moment later. Leonidas gestured to the bush and the Changewing disappeared again. The only trace of it was it's footsteps going behind the bush and pulling it apart.
The kids were met with a dark greendragon with a serpent like head. The rest of it was still obscured by the bush, but not for long as it stalked out, it's scales making a humming sound as it did. It's mouth opened revealing it's teeth and a throat that slowly began glowing red.
"Camo, now!" Leo commanded and the dragon's wings spread out right before the liquid like fire spewed from the dragons mouth. Since it was still invisible the fire just seemed to be bouncing in mid air. Leo ran over with some rope tying the dragons feet to the ground, not escaping a bite to his arm.
"What type of dragon is that?!" Hazel asked. She brought out the book of dragons and began making a sketch of the dragon. Making notes like, "The fire is similiar to a Nightmare" and et cetera. She was just about to draw its wings when she realized it hadn't shown them yet. She moved to the side and tossed a rock at it, causing it to unfold its wings, er . . . sets of wings.
She counted two and began drawing them on the dragon. "Leo, the dragon has four wings, and it wasn't in the book!" The boy nodded and looked to where Camo would be standing and the dragon appeared.
"Cut off the ropes," he said and the dragon proceeded to do just that. Once the new dragon was freed of its bonds it turned to Hazel and began walking towards her, its mouth lighting up.
She held a hand out trying to calm it saying, "It's okay, we're not here to hurt you . . ." The dragon continued forward, its scales humming. "I'm not here to hurt you" she repeated pulling the bow off and dropping it to the ground.
"Remember how the teacher taught you!" Leonidas said to her. He stood ready to pull his sword out, if need be.
Hazel sighed and examined the dragon for another second before it stopped for a moment only a meter in front of her. It was good while it last because its throat began glowing red again making Hazel back up. The dragon moved forward, its scales humming more, even when it stopped its tail swept back and forth keeping the sound going.
Hazel had one idea, that may prove fatal, but she had to try at least. She let her hand relax and began humming a tune walking forward. She pulled her hand up under its neck while it was transfixed by the noise and scratched. Within half a second she found its sweet spot and it fell over. She opened her satchel and pulled out a fish placing it in front of the dragon and backed away.
Fire dripped out of its mouth searing the fish before it swallowed. Hazel was pretty sure that it was burning the fish as it ate it as well. The dragon walked towards her ripping off her satchel and ate the whole thing smelling more fish inside. It spit out the bag after it was done though.
Hazel looked to the sky seeing it was late and looked at Leonidas who was ready on his dragon. She hopped up leaving the dragon there and the two took off back towards Berk. The dragon saw a sheep walk towards it and proceeded to eat it.
"Wanna show Hiccup?" Leonidas asked, "He hasn't seen a new dragon in a while and we have some notes down for it!" Hazel simply nodded and looked back to the island.
A/N: So, that was the first chapter of the story as I am currently writing the second. See you next time!